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- David Haskell Adams was married twice but neither marriage produced children.
REF: personal notes on the Haskell family genealogy written by Betsy Ann Haskell Noyes sometime after 1895.
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The following biographical sketch of Rev. David Haskell Adams is adapted from the "Free Baptist Cyclopaedia Historical & Biographical" by Rev. G. A. Burgess, AM and Rev. J. T. Ward, AM. Free Baptist Cyclopaedia Co. 1889, page 10.
Rev. David Haskell Adams, was born in Tunbridge, Vermont, August 25, 1835 son of George W. and Eliza M. (Haskell) Adams. He was converted when sixteen years of age under the labors of Rev. G. Sanborn, by whom he was baptized at Tunbridge, July 4, 1852. He prepared for college at Royalton Academy from which he graduated in 1856. He graduated from Middlebury College in 1860. After teaching for two years he entered the New Hampton Biblical School, New Hampshire, graduating in 1864 and received a license to preach the same year. He was ordained March 12,1865 by the Huntington Q. M., at Huntington, VT. Reverends E. B. Fuller, R. M. Minard, D. S. Frost, and S. W. Cowell served as the council. His first pastorate was at Underhill Center, VT where he remained six years, receiving during that time thirty-seven new members into the church. After a year at Waterbury Center, he was pastor for three years of the church at Lyndon Center where he received seventeen members, ten by baptism. On January 1, 1875 he settled at Farmington, NH for four years, followed by two years at New Market, and then returned to Farmington for three years. Forty-seven were added to the church during that time. He served as pastor at St. Johnsbury for nearly three years and received over thirty new members into the church. Since January 18, 1887, he has been pastor of the church at Franklin Falls, New Hampshire. He was a trustee and, for a time, treasurer of the Green Mountain Seminary, Vermont. He also taught at Lyndon Center. He married Miss Harriet S. Morey on August 17, 1865.
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